Ted Nelson
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American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1937
- Works
- 14
Top works
- Possiplex
- Geeks bearing gifts
- Computer Lib/Dream Machines
- The home computer revolution
- Computer lib
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1933-04-29
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 30
- Total plays
- 117
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,759x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,520x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,415x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,396x
- The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
· 2016 · cited 13,885x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “The World Wide Web was precisely what we were trying to PREVENT— ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you can't follow to their origins, no version management, no rights management.”
- “[Of the web] It's massively successful. It is trivially simple. Massively successful like karaoke - anybody can do it.”
- “After all, dumbing down Xanadu sure worked well for Tim Berners-Lee!”
- “We should not impose regularity where it does not exist.”
- “I have long been alarmed by people’s sheeplike acceptance of the term ‘computer technology’ — it sounds so objective and inexorable — when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages.”
- “You can and must understand computers now!”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1937-06-17 ) June 17, 1937 (age 88) , Chicago , Illinois , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Swarthmore College ( BA ), University of Chicago , Harvard University ( MA ), Keio University ( PhD )
- Known for
- Hypertext
- Parent s
- Ralph Nelson , Celeste Holm
- Fields
- Information technology, philosophy, and sociology
- Institutions
- Project Xanadu
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- ted.hyperland.com
- Image
- Ted Nelson cropped.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1937-06-17
- Commons category
- Ted Nelson
- name in native language
- Theodor Holm Nelson
- curriculum vitae URL
- hyperland.com/TNvita
- social media followers
- 10000
via Wikidata · CC0
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Article
Theodor Holm Nelson (born June 17, 1937) is an American pioneer of information technology, philosopher of computer science, and sociologist. He coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1963 and published them in 1965. According to his profile published in Forbes in 1997, Nelson "sees himself as a literary romantic, like a Cyrano de Bergerac, or 'the Orson Welles of software'."
Early life and education